Astros avoid series sweep with walk-off win over Twins

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Sep 4, 2013

1, delivered the first walk-off hit of his career Wednesday with an RBI single to left in the ninth inning to give the Astros a 6-5 victory over the Twins. The walk-off win was Houston's fourth this season and first since it beat the A's on July 23. One d… (more)ay after he was benched for a foolish mental blunder on the bases, Jonathan Villar used his speed to help score the winning run against the Twins on Trevor Crowe’s walk-off single Wednesday afternoon. Lyles held the Twins to four hits and three runs with one walk and four strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings. The Astros executed about as perfectly as they could on offense Wednesday afternoon without the benefit of bashing home runs all over Minute Maid Park. They did the little things. “I’d faced Duensing in the past and had some success, so I thought with a left-hander behind me he was probably going to pitch me pretty tough and I was just looking off-speed,” Crowe said.

By JOSE DE JESUS ORTIZ Until lefthander Erik Bedard blew the save, Jordan Lyles was in line for the victory Wednesday afternoon. The Astros have won five of Lyles’ last six appearances, which include two relief outings. Lyles held the Twins to four hits…